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Re: Intel blows it again
In <3vm2ta$jvs@nntp.Stanford.EDU> ibrahim@apollo13.Stanford.EDU (Nabeel Robert Ibrahim) writes:
>What ever happened to personal responsibility? Why can't people accept
>the fact that they must pay the price if they break the law? If you
>jaywalk, you should be willing to pay the price if caught.
Whatever happened to common sense? I want to see violent felons in jail ,not
someone who accessed the wrong file. I guess if the punishment for jaywalking
was like, crucifixion, you'd still do your little "obdience to authority"
dance. By your logic, Salmon Rushdie should blithly accept his death
sentance. After all, he broke the law, he should be willing to pay the price.
>If you go around and try to illegally acquire passwords, you should be
>prosecuted. It's not silly, it's illegal and an invasion of privacy.
>I don't think most people go around breaking into their employers'
>computer systems.
How do you you "break into" something that youre being paid to access???
He had a root account, testing security is part of a sysadmins job.
In the immortal words of Beavis & Butthead , "Dumbass".
jim collins
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